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Nossa Senhora de Fátima is the northernmost and largest civil parish in the Macau Peninsula of Macau. It has an area of and a population of 126,000, which constitutes about 40.3% of the peninsula's land mass and one-third of the population.
This parish was one of five in the former
Municipality of Macau
The Municipality of Macau ( pt, Concelho de Macau) was one of two municipalities of Macau, along with the Municipality of Ilhas.
Governance
Its bodies were the Municipal Council of Macau, municipal council (''Câmara Municipal de Macau'') and ...
, one of Macau's two municipalities that were abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001, following the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China. While their administrative functions have since been removed, these parishes are still retained nominally.
It is northeast of the parishes of Santo António and São Lázaro. It borders the Chinese city of Zhuhai to the north.
Description
The parish consists mostly of land reclaimed from the sea. Natural land comprises only a quarter of its current size. It was developed from farmlands in the 1960s and 1970s, to become an industrial area. Forty-one percent of Macau's factories are located in the parish.Places and attractions
The following places and attractions are in the parish * Ilha Verde (青洲, "Green Island") * Toi San (台山 "Table Hill") * Hipódromo (" Hippodrome", 馬場 "Horse Farm") *Areia Preta Areia may refer to:
* ''Areia'' (trilobite)
* Areia, Paraíba, a city in Brazil
*Aria (satrapy), or Greek ''Areía'', the Greek name form of a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire in today's Afghanistan
*Athena Areia, as an epithet of the goddess Athena ...
("Black Sand", 黑沙環 "Black-sand Ring")
* Mong Ha
Mong may refer to:
People
*A proposed original name for the Hmong people, based on the main group, the Mong community
*Bob Mong (), American journalist and academic administrator
*Henry Mong (), American surgeon and Presbyterian missionary
*Mong M ...
(望廈 "View Amoy"), the Treaty of Wanghia was signed here
* Bairro "Fai Chi Kei" (筷子基 " Chopsticks Base")
* Iao Hon (祐漢 "Blessing the Han")
Infrastructure
* Macau Power StationHealthcare
The Macau government operates the Centro de Saúde Areia Preta (黑沙環衛生中心) in Areia Preta (Hac Sa Wan).Tourist attractions
* Canidrome * Communications Museum * Garden of Montanha Russa * Kun Iam Temple * Lin Zexu Memorial Museum of Macau * Macau Design Centre * Macau Mosque and Cemetery *Mong-Há Fort
Mong-Há Fort (; pt, Fortaleza de Mong-Há) is a fort on Mong-Há Hill, Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau, China. The fort is part of a greater military reservation – the Bairro Militar de Mong-Há, which included the Quartel de Mong-Há (Mong ...
* Portas do Cerco
* Sun Yat Sen Park
Education
Primary and secondary schools
; Public schools: *Zheng Guanying Official School
Zheng Guanying Official School (, pt, Escola Oficial Zheng Guanying, EOZGY) is a primary and secondary school in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau.Escola Luso-Chinesa Técnico-Profissional (中葡職業技術學校) - Secondary school
*Escola Primária Luso-Chinesa do Bairro Norte (北區中葡小學)
**It opened on 1 November 1990.
*Jardim de Infância Luso-Chinês "Girassol" (樂富中葡幼稚園)
:*It occupies a 260 student-capacity, area on two floors of the Edifício U Wa (裕華大廈). It opened in the Edifício “Lok Fu San Chun” on 27 March 1989 and moved to its current location in September 1997.
; Tuition-free private schools:
* Colégio Dom Bosco (Yuet Wah) (鮑思高粵華小學) - Preschool and primary school
** The current school building opened in 1963, and Yuet Wah College merged into it in 2000. The school has English and Chinese sections; its Portuguese section closed in 1999.
* (MBC; ''Escola Cham Son de Macau''; 澳門浸信中學) - Preschool through secondary school
** Previously its secondary campus was located in a different area of Nossa Senhora de Fátima, respectively
* Escola Chong Tak de Macau (澳門中德學校) - Preschool and primary school
* Escola Fukien (澳門福建學校) - Preschool and primary school
*
Sheng Kung Hui Choi Kou School Macau. Retrieved on April 15, 2017. "中學部及小學部 ..��址: 澳門馬揸度博士大馬路266號" (''Sheng Kung Hui Escola Choi Kou (Macau)''; 聖公會(澳門)蔡高中學) primary school and day secondary school campus ; Non-free private schools: *
University of Saint Joseph has its main campus in Ilha Verde, Nossa Senhora de Fátima. It moved into this campus in September 2017.
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/ref> * Ilha Verde Library (''Biblioteca da Ilha Verde''; 青洲圖書館) **The library, which opened in 1995, occupies of space on the fourth floor of the Edf. May Fair Garden (美居廣場). * Mong Há Library (''Biblioteca de Mong Há''; 望廈圖書館) **It occupies of space on the third floor of the Edifício Mong Sin (望善樓) in the Habitação Social de Mong Há (望廈社屋). It first occupied a three storey building in the Bairro Social de Mong-Há (望廈新邨) upon opening in 1988; this location closed in April 2011 and it reopened in its current location in December 2011. * Wong Ieng Kuan Library in (''Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim da Areia Preta''; 黑沙環公園黃營均圖書館) **One of several parks funded by
Macau freguesias
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Hou Kong Middle School Macau
Hou or HOU may refer to:
* -hou, a place-name element
* Hou (surname)
* Hou (currency) (Chinese: ), a unit of currency in Greater China
* Hou (Odder Municipality), a town in Denmark
* Hou (title) (Chinese: ), a title in ancient China
* Denglo ...
(''Escola Hou Kong''; 濠江中學) main campus, which houses secondary school
* (海暉學校) - Preschool and primary school
* Escola Ilha Verde da Associação Comercial de Macau (歡迎光臨青洲小學) - Preschool and primary school
* Keang Peng School
Keang Peng School (, pt, Escola Keang Peng) is a private school
Private or privates may refer to:
Music
* " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation''
* Private (band), a Denmark-based band
* "Private" (Ryōko Hi ...
(''Escola Keang Peng'') - Preschool through secondary school
* Kwong Tai (Guang Da) Middle School, main campus. - Preschool to secondary school
* Escola Lin Fong Pou Chai (蓮峰普濟學校) - Preschool and primary school
* Escola Madalena de Canossa (瑪大肋納嘉諾撒學校) - Preschool and primary school
* Our Lady of Fatima Girls' School (''Escola Nossa Senhora de Fátima''; 化地瑪聖母女子學校) - Preschool through secondary school
* (澳門聖保祿學校) - Preschool through secondary school
* (澳門工聯職業技術中學) - Has both junior high (Ensino secundário-geral/初中教育) and senior high (Ensino secundário-complementar/高中教育) levels
* Escola Tak Meng (德明學校) - Preschool and primary school - Located on the first floor of the Edifício Lok Fu San Chun (樂富新村)
* Fu Luen School (''Escola da Associação Geral das Mulheres de Macau''; 澳門婦聯學校) - Preschool and primary school
* Escola da Associação para Filhos e Irmãos dos Agricultores or (菜農子弟學校 "Choi Nong Chi Tai Hoc Hau") - Preschool through secondary school
* (聖德蘭學校) - Preschool and primary school
* (澳門坊眾學校) - Preschool through senior high
* Jardim Infantil da Cáritas (明愛幼稚園) - Preschool - Located in Edf. Kam Hoi San Garden (金海山花園)
* Sheng Kung Hui Choi Kou School MacauHomeSheng Kung Hui Choi Kou School Macau. Retrieved on April 15, 2017. "中學部及小學部 ..��址: 澳門馬揸度博士大馬路266號" (''Sheng Kung Hui Escola Choi Kou (Macau)''; 聖公會(澳門)蔡高中學) primary school and day secondary school campus ; Non-free private schools: *
Colégio Diocesano de São José 5
Colégio Diocesano de São José 5 (CDSJ5; ) is a Roman Catholic preschool through secondary school in Nossa Senhora de Fátima (Our Lady of Fatima Parish), Macau. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau and it is a member of the ...
- Preschool through secondary school
* Xin Hua Evening Secondary School
Xin may refer to:
* Xin Dynasty (), which ruled China from 8–23 AD
* Xincan languages (ISO 639: xin), a small extinct family of Mesoamerican languages
People
* Xin (surname), Chinese surname
* Empress Xin (Zhang Zuo's wife) (; died ), wife o ...
(''Escola Secundária Nocturna Xin Hua''/新華夜中學)
* (商訓夜中學), an evening secondary school
Colleges and universities
University of Saint Joseph has its main campus in Ilha Verde, Nossa Senhora de Fátima. It moved into this campus in September 2017.
Public libraries
Macao Public Library
The Macao Public Library (; pt, Biblioteca Pública de Macau) is the public library system of Macau. The head office is on the ground floor of the old building of the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library in São Lourenço (Saint Lawrence Parish).
Hist ...
operates five branches in the parish:Branch Libraries"
Macao Public Library
The Macao Public Library (; pt, Biblioteca Pública de Macau) is the public library system of Macau. The head office is on the ground floor of the old building of the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library in São Lourenço (Saint Lawrence Parish).
Hist ...
. Retrieved on April 16, 2017Portuguese
/ref> * Ilha Verde Library (''Biblioteca da Ilha Verde''; 青洲圖書館) **The library, which opened in 1995, occupies of space on the fourth floor of the Edf. May Fair Garden (美居廣場). * Mong Há Library (''Biblioteca de Mong Há''; 望廈圖書館) **It occupies of space on the third floor of the Edifício Mong Sin (望善樓) in the Habitação Social de Mong Há (望廈社屋). It first occupied a three storey building in the Bairro Social de Mong-Há (望廈新邨) upon opening in 1988; this location closed in April 2011 and it reopened in its current location in December 2011. * Wong Ieng Kuan Library in (''Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim da Areia Preta''; 黑沙環公園黃營均圖書館) **One of several parks funded by
Chinese Peruvian
Chinese Peruvians, also known as ''tusán'' (a loanword from ), are Peruvian citizens whose ancestors came from China. They are people of overseas Chinese ancestry born in Peru or who have made Peru their adopted homeland. 14,307 Peruvians claim C ...
Wong Ieng Kuan (黃營均), it has an area with of space. Its opening occurred in 2004.
* Wong Ieng Kuan Children's Library in Areia Preta Urban Park (''Biblioteca Infantil Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim da Areia Preta''; 黑沙環公園黃營均兒童圖書館)
** The library occupies a space of and is directly across from the main library in the same park. It uses a theme from the Mainland Chinese television programme '' Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf''. It first opened on 2 July 2011. The library, prior to receiving its current theme on 1 December 2012, originally had an ''Alice in Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...
'' theme.
* Wong Ieng Kuan Library in Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Municipal Park (''Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Parque Dr. Sun Yat Sen''; 紀念孫中山公園黃營均圖書館)
** It occupies of space in a former restaurant in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Municipal Park. One of several created with funding by Dr. Wong Ieng Kuan, it opened in a separate building in the park in 1996 and moved to its current building on 24 January 2014.
Religion
Christianity
* Our Lady of Fátima Church (1967)See also
* Macau PeninsulaReferences
External links
Macau freguesias
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